Bridging the Lab and the Clinic to Address Addiction and Comorbid Affective and Psychosis Disorders
March 18 @ 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Please register below for the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) Symposium on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, taking place all day at UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation.
This year’s symposium will bring together leading-edge researchers who are advancing our understanding of drug addiction and its intersection with psychiatric disorders and translational neuroscience.
Featured Speakers
Megan Fox, PhD
Penn State University
Tony George, MD, FRCPC
University of Toronto
Joshuah Gordon, MD, PhD
Columbia University
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Firoza Mamdani, PhD
University of California Irvine
Zoe McElligott, PhD
University of North Carolina
Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD
University of California San Franscisco
Agenda
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome Remarks Stephen Mahler, PhD and Christie Fowler, PhD, University of California Irvine |
| 8:45 a.m. | Keynote: Tony P. George, MD, FRCPC, University of Toronto |
| 9:35 a.m. | Firoza Mamdani, PhD, University of California Irvine |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:20 a.m. | Khaled Moussawi, MD, PhD, University of California San Franscisco |
| 10:45 a.m. | Megan Fox, PhD, Penn State University |
| 11:10 a.m. | Keynote: Dr. Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:20 p.m. | Data Blitz |
| 1:50 p.m. | Zoe McElligott, PhD, University of North Carolina |
| 2:20 p.m. | Keynote: Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, Columbia University |
| 3:10 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion |
| 5:00 p.m. | Reception |
Register to attend the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) Symposium
Event Sponsors
Special thanks to our event sponsors: UC Irvine Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries, UC Irvine Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science, UC Irvine Cetner for Neural Circuit Mapping, UC Irvine School of Medicine, UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences, UC Irvine Conte Center, and NIDA Center of Excellence Impact of Cannabinoids Across the Lifespan.
